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Battle of Fort Lee. Thomas Davies FRS FLS (c. 1737 – 16 March 1812) was a British Army officer, artist, and naturalist. He was born c. 1737 in Shooter's Hill (London), England and died 16 March 1812 in Blackheath (London). He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-general in the Royal Artillery.
Creating watercolour paintings to record the countryside for the British army, Thomas Davies developed a talent that made him one of Canada’s best artists. Paints and brushes, inks and pens, topographical map-making in the 18th century was a hands-on activity.
'An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara' is an important watercolour documenting the struggle for control of North America. Painted in 1762 by Captain Thomas Davies, a military artist and surveyor, the work illuminates the history of British exploration, science and military enterprise.
Thomas Davies (ca. 1712 - 1785) RA Collection: People and Organisations Bookseller, and actor, in London. Introduced Boswell to Dr. Johnson. Appointed by the king as Bookseller to the RA. Council Minutes 30 January 1769. Presented bills for books bought by Royal Academy in 1770 (22 March £4 3s.6 d.); 1773 (April £2 11s.6d.;
Thomas Davies A North View of Fort Frederick Built by Order of the Honourable Colonel Robert Monckton, on the Entrance of the St. John's River in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, 1758 A South-east View of the Lower Cataract on the Casconchiagon or Little Seneca River, on Lake Ontario, c. 1768
Thomas Davies and the eighteenth-century topographical picture. Thomas Davies entered the military academy at Woolwich, England in 1755 where officers were introduced to drawing and water colour painting for purposes of making topographical records of “landscape features.”.
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Thomas Davies FRS FLS (c. 1737 – 16 March 1812) was a British Army officer, artist, and naturalist. He was born c. 1737 in Shooter's Hill (London), England and died 16 March 1812 in Blackheath (London). He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-general in the Royal Artillery.
